MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Wizard-8 While you could get away with making a movie like "Beast from Haunted Cave" back in the 1950s, there's no way making a modern example of it that would appeal to contemporary audiences. While the title of the movie promises a lot of horror, that is not the case at all. In the first half of the movie, the monster barely makes its presence known. And while the monster makes a few more appearances in the second half, it's not worth the wait, since the monster looks flat out ridiculous and the direction of its homicidal rampage isn't particularly well done. I have a sneaking suspicion that the script for this movie was originally a straight crime drama, and that some quick rewrites made it into a (sorta) monster movie. Had the movie gone by that path, it might have been passable, but apart from some pretty good low budget photography there's not a lot here for B movie fans.

Rainey Dawn This is actually a pretty interesting little crime-horror film. It surprised me. Really they could have changed it to just a crime film-noir and the movie would have been just as good but I like the horror aspect of the film.The movie is just as the plot-summary states "A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster." but it's actually better than one might expect it to be.This is a fun popcorn B-flick. I had a ball watching it. It's not the greatest horror film on the market but it is entertaining.6/10

Scarecrow-88 Alex, Marty, Byron, and Gypsy (Frank Wolff, Wally Campo, Richard Sinatra, and Sheila Noonan) move from place to place, successful bank robbers, now in South Dakota, preparing to blow a mine so that the local authorities will be distracted while they are heisting loot (gold bars)from another location. They hire a ski resort owner/instructor, Gil Jackson (Michael Forest) to train them on how to ski, wanting him to take them to a specific spot where the group plans to catch an airplane ride, gold bars in tow. What none of them expect is to be in the midst of a creature that has been following close behind, living in a reputed haunted cave. Early Hellman picture is nothing special, but will probably remain a watchable item due to the novelty of featuring an up and coming director learning under the tutelage of Corman, allowed a bit of freedom as long as he keeps the production cost under budget. The "beast" of the title is basically a giant spider with two extended appendages that grab victims (Hellman is wise enough to keep the camera close and covers the creature in cob webs, never showing its face or total body, because doing so would hinder the creep factor). I think the most effective scenes have victims cocooned in web, white, lifeless faces displaying the drained blood thanks to the creature's thirsty appetite. Most of the film is rather dialogue-heavy, featuring noirish hoods, with Hellman preparing us for the eventual showdown between Alex, the leader of the thieves with a nasty streak that shows when he loses his temper, and the dashing, pipe-smoking, nature-loving, mild-mannered ski instructor, Gil. I know Forest from shows like Star Trek and The Outer Limits, and his character here is likable enough, tolerant of the obnoxious behavior of Byron and Marty. The animosity that starts to brew between Alex and Gil stems from Gypsy's burgeoning disenchantment with her current "family". It is evident early that Gypsy is falling hard for the handsome Gil, someone who could possibly offer her a better, more fruitful life. Alex is a calculating career criminal who likes the thrill his "occupation" provides, but he cannot contain his anger when Gypsy is flirting with Gil; Alex's jealousy in his Achilles' Heel. The creature mainly shows up at the end, with a great portion of the film dedicated to Alex's set-in-motion plans for the heist and exit strategy, Gil just a means to an end, the guide who takes them where they need to go to get on a plane (that doesn't show up on schedule due to inclement weather), Canada their destination. Like in many other (much better) heist films, the robbery is successful, but the escape plans go awry, this time a creature disrupting the supposed fool-proof trip out of the country and on to greener pastures. Good South Dakota locations help. Leisurely paced (even barely over an hour it feels longer), with less emphasis (probably because Hellman was little interested in making the standard creature feature picture) on monster attacks (until the very end in the cave, that is) and more on the dynamic that exists between the principles (particularly the love triangle).

wes-connors In snowy South Dakota, handsome ski instructor Michael Forest (as Gil Jackson) gets involved with sensuous Sheila Carol (as Gypsy Boulet) and a gang of thieves led by her jealous lover Frank Wolff (as Alexander "Alex" Ward). The other crooks are wily Wally Campo (as Byron Smith) and Frank's cousin Richard Sinatra (as Marty Jones). The latter has the convincing line, "Nobody takes my watch!" The former takes cocktail waitress Linné Ahlstrand (as Natalie) out for a quickie, but she gets spun by the "Beat from Haunted Cave" instead. The monster is played by future soap opera star Chris Robinson, who also appears in the bar. The location and a couple of set-ups are okay, but that's about it for this dull, unwarranted horror.*** Beast from Haunted Cave (10/30/59) Monte Hellman ~ Michael Forest, Sheila Noonan, Frank Wolff, Wally Campo